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The sound you hear is that of Brewers nation ramming their collective heads against the wall. What a horrible day.

LHP Luis Ramirez is your Baby Brewer starter. C Brett Whiteside is back in the lineup, albeit at DH.

Oh, come on... Ryan Freel. Come on!

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit... I've been doing that all day. It seems to me that it is taking Doug Melvin about 24 hours to screw this team over what has been accompished the past few years. I can maybe take giving up a nice young pitcher for Tony Graffanino and I can maybe take getting, well, something or another for Lee, but I can't take trading anything for David Bell. If we trade for Reggie Sanders I'm gonna crack.

And Ryan Crew is just destroying FSL pitching. Kid should be in Huntsville by the end of the year.

Manny Parra is pitching a very good game through the 4th inning of a 7-inning game.

"Brandon Phillips singles on a bunt ground ball" = fingernails on a chalkboard.

Yikes...Jim Powell mentioning the possibility of Weeks and surgery Good night... this year would be officially cursed.

So what is it...IF or SP? What times we live in, when Tony Graffanino isn't enough to salve the IF pain.

Manny Parra is your TBD starting pitcher in the second game of the Brevard double-dip tonight.

BTW, seeing Jenkins bat behind Hart is wonderful.

I don't want to start a spat over this, but if the Brewers really, really wanted Mench to be Milwaukee right now, he'd be there. I'm sure Attanasio or one of the other owners has a jet somewhere that could've picked the guy up. All I'm saying is that if this is Roger Clemens or Curt Schilling (or Carlos Lee), they are at the park. It's Kevin Mench, so his head is having problems getting through baggage check.

Just bumping this as I am sure it may be a popular "destination" tonight.

Yo! and CV are both just pitching out of their minds right now. Even a bad Yo outing involves him simply giving up walks (not even runs). Steve Bray replaces CV in the 8th and ruins the shutout bid, but he's still pitching well. And congrats to Rob Hinton and Steve Hammond last night on their stellar starts. Pitching may not be working in Milwaukee, but it sure is fun to check up on the youngins nowadays.

what move is that? The STF is short for a Step-over Toe-hold Facelock, a submission move recently made re-famous by John Cena in the form of the STFU, a play on his finisher, the FU (a fireman's carry powerslam).

I think the "stfu ski" may have been a veiled reference to a wrestling move, but I could be wrong.

Cole Gillespie is in the game tonight for Helena in CF, ending his 3-game hiatus from game action. Drew Anderson, however, is still not anywhere to be found in the Huntsville box score.

Carlos with another terrific at-bat.

Jim Powell seems to think today is a, uh, must-win game. Well, I guess technically I can't disagree.

RHP Bo Hall is your Manatee starter this afternoon, making his second start of the year.

Oi, that Helena team sucks.

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Do any of you guys think that Gallardo will be in Nashville by the end of August? I doubt it, unless he gets called up for a playoff start. This could change if he locates his fastball better like the Huntsville staff wants and he's dominant for another few starts, but I doubt it.

As much as I like Fermaint, do you think he's deserving of a promotion? I don't think he is either. He makes hard contact when he makes contact, and he has OK pitch selection, but as Colby mentioned, he already was skipped a level and without great production, why push him even more. I'd rather take a chance on him dominating A+ pitching the last third of the season than see him scuffle in AA. He'll be there next year folks, don't worry. I agree with Iribarren. Since he's probably never going to hit for much power, keep moving him up as long as he keeps hitting. While he doesn't have home run power, Iribarren does have more power than, say, Tony Gwynn. He has enough charge in his swing to reach the deep gaps, while Gwynn has to usually roll balls to get there. This explains Hurricane's triples outburst in rookie ball - he was able to charge the balls into the OF and then run as the poor outfield defense allowed him to get to third. Unlike Gwynn, Iribarren isn't a power liability at the plate. And how about Robert Hinton? He and Iribarren could give the Stars a nice boost. I'm really excited about Rob Hinton, but I don't know where he fits in yet long-term. I'm not a big fan of middle-relief prospects, but he's so good at what he does. We'll see. Edit: Yo's starts don't even need mentioning anymore. I haven't been as excited as this by a starting pitcher in quite some time. Even without mid-90's stuff, he's still outsmarting batters seemingly at will, and his simple mechanics are a joy to think about. As I mentioned in the Power 50, Yo will be up by the end of next year (barring arm injury), and will be here to stay for a long time.

Robert Hinton is the man. That is all.